The Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Ishaq Oloyede has appealed to lecturers and federal government to holistically examine the system, take hard decisions to call- off the strike.
Oloyede made the appeal while monitoring the 2022 mop-up Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) on Saturday.
The Registrar appealed to parties involved in the impasse to reach a truce for students to return to classrooms, saying even if ASUU called -off the strike, it would not prevent it from happening again unless issues affecting the striking lecturers and the position of government are critically looked into and resolved
“I believe that what we should do is to look at the system and take some hard decisions, “if we do not take such decisions, then we may be postponing the evil day”
Prof. Oloyede hinted that The Mop- Up (UTME) examination was organized for candidates who could not participate in the nationwide test which was held in May, 2022. He added that more than 42,000 candidates participated in the exercise conducted in 45 centres in five states.
Recall, ASUU had declared a nationwide strike on February 14, 2022 due to failure of government to accede to the demands of the Union which includes:The release of the revitalisation funds for universities, release of earned allowances for university lecturers, deployment of the University Transparency Accountability System for the payment of salaries and allowances of university lecturers, renegotiation of the ASUU-Federal Government 2009 agreement among others.
Meanwhile, The
Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo noted that “ASUU’s proposal is N1.2trillion. Their former N412blllion was 50 percent of the total wage structure of the federal government.He enjoined parents and relevant bodies to plead with ASUU to re-open universities for students to continue their studies.
